THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2015
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Cannon Beach CERT moves to Police Department
By ERICK BENGEL
EO Media Group
CANNON BEACH — The
all-volunteer CERT (Commu-
nity Emergency Response
Team) of Cannon Beach will
be supervised by the Cannon
Beach Police Department.
CERT members — who
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evacuation protocols, the In- Jason Schermerhorn
cident Command System and
the National Incident Man-
agement System — are most Day, and emergencies, such as
often seen at major communi- dangerous coastal storms.
ty events, such as Sandcastle
Their essential duties often
include crowd control, direct-
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communication and providing
“a reassuring presence,” said
Lianne Thompson, a former
Cannon Beach CERT leader
who stepped down to focus on
her new role as the Clatsop
County commissioner for
District 5.
CERT “just gives you
more of a cadre of people to
count on if there’s an emer-
gency,” said Cannon Beach
Police Chief Jason Scher-
merhorn.
Cannon Beach Fire and
Rescue has overseen Can-
non Beach’s CERT program
since 2013, but it wasn’t
making use of the roughly
20 active volunteers as of-
ten as the Police Department
would, Fire Chief Mike Bal-
zer said.
Moreover, “We don’t
have the manpower or the
budget to take on a whole
CERT program,” he added.
“I think they can use them
better in the city.”
Cannon Beach Fire and
Rescue, which is not a city
department but a rural fire
protection district, has two
paid staff members — Balzer
Coffenbury Lake featured in new
interactive map for disabled anglers
The Daily Astorian
WARRENTON — Coffenbury Lake in Fort Stevens
State Park and the Sixth Street viewing platform in As-
toria are among 133 sites across the state found suitable
for anglers with physical disabilities.
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife un-
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signed to help disable anglers find places to fish.
The map contains icons that launch information box-
es with accessibility information about the sites such
as fishing platforms, piers, docks, paths, restrooms and
parking, ODFW said.
Anglers can also use the maps to get directions from
their location to any of the sites.
“There are many places around Oregon that offer
excellent fishing opportunities for people with disabili-
ties,” Rick Hargrave, administrator for ODFW’s Infor-
mation and Education Division, said in a news release.
“We hope this map makes it easier for everyone — from
the oldest adult to the youngest child and everyone in
between, to get out and fish.”
Coffenbury Lake is a 50-acre lake located in Fort
Stevens State Park, two miles west of Warrenton. It
features an improved boat ramp, docks and bank ac-
cess. The fish species found in Coffenbury Lake in-
clude rainbow trout, largemouth bass, yellow perch,
brown bullhead, surplus hatchery steelhead when
available.
The Sixth Street viewing platform in Astoria offers
anglers fishing off of a dock for sturgeon, salmon and
steelhead.
Other nearby locations found on the new map include
the Nehalem Hatchery and Vernonia Pond.
Many popular fishing locations are already accessi-
ble to disabled anglers, ODFW said. The new map is a
guide to such areas.
Hargrave said accessibility varies and some sites
may not be suitable for all levels of disability.
The new map can be accessed at http://bit.ly/1y-
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lenged to raise $500. If they
are successful, the Harold
& Arlene Schnitzer CARE
Foundation awards a match-
ing grant of $7,500, with up
to $500 in additional money
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one ratio. If students do not
meet their goal, the founda-
tion matches dollars raised at
a 10-to-one ratio. Since the
program’s inception in 1998,
more than $700,000 has been
granted to more than 160 non-
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Last year in the program,
Warrenton and Astoria high
school Key Club members
each granted more than
On the record
Disorderly conduct
• At 1:47 a.m. Tuesday,
Warrenton Police arrested
Mark Jordan Connell, 23, for
disorderly conduct after he al-
legedly caused a disturbance
outside an apartment at 182
S.W. Cedar Ave. Police said
Connell appearing intoxicated
outside pounding on the door
to get back inside.
DUII arrest
• At 6:49 a.m. Monday, the
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and programs at their high
schools. Their gifts were
matched tenfold by the Har-
old and Arlene Schnitzer
CARE Foundation.
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doesn’t
have to be in huge amounts to
make a big difference,” said
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Community Action
Team receives grant
to expand home
visiting services
It was awarded the grant
this year in the second
round of funding.
The Community Action
The expansion grant
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serving Columbia, Clat- ber of family service
sop and Tillamook coun- slots available in Clatsop
ties, recently received a County from 20 to about
$136,600 expansion grant 40, Kamppi said. It will
for its Health Families also open up more Span-
home visiting program.
ish-speaking slots as well.
Healthy Families is a
The goal of Healthy
free, voluntary family sup- Families is to increase the
port and parent education number of children ready
home visiting program for school and reduce the
for prenatal and new birth likelihood of child abuse
families. The program of- and neglect in participat-
fers developmental screen- ing new birth families
ings, support and infor- by improving parenting
mation, according to the skills, enhancing family
Community Action Team.
functioning and increasing
Parents receive infor- families’ connections with
mation on child develop- other resources, according
ment, infant care and keep- to the Community Action
ing their baby healthy.
Team.
Many families are eligi-
Annually, the Commu-
ble for home visits with a nity Action Team serves
trained home visitor, who more than 16,000 people.
coaches them as they build
Healthy Families of
their parenting skills.
Clatsop County is part of
Sunday Kamppi, pro- the national Healthy Fam-
gram coordinator for Co- ilies America Network, an
lumbia and Clatsop Coun- evidence-based home vis-
ty, said the Community iting program.
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“Sometimes you need
to the Oregon Health Au- extra support and that is
thority for the grant fund- what our home visitors are
ing nearly four years ago. there for,” Kamppi said.
Arlene Schnitzer, in town
with her son Jordan and other
foundation members for the
CommuniCare grant awards
ceremony last May. “I hope
you remember that for what-
ever you do, wherever life
takes you, it’s the little things
that count.”
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for natural disasters, she
said.
Schermerhorn is seeking
a new Cannon Beach CERT
leader as well as arranging
for more CERT training.
Team members will
work closely with their fel-
low CERTs in Arch Cape
and Falcon Cove, Cannon
Beach’s emergency pre-
paredness committee and
cache container subcommit-
tee, and potentially the life-
guards, Schermerhorn said.
“They’re just another
great asset the city’s proud
to bring on board,” he said.
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Astoria High School’s
CommuniCare group is
looking for nonprofits fo-
cused on education, the en-
vironment and emergency
services. Nonprofits in the
community that fit one of
these categories can apply
for a grant that will be given
out in the spring. For more
information about the pro-
gram or how to apply, con-
tact Casey Litwin at caseyli-
twin@astoria.k12.or.us
CommuniCare introduces
young people to philanthropy
by putting them in charge of a
minifoundation.
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Police Department has nine
paid staff members, plus the
lifeguards and parking infor-
mation officers during the
summer.
More available staff
members means more op-
portunities for training and
reinforcing the CERT vol-
unteers’ “muscle memory”
of emergency response,
Thompson said.
CERT, “both locally and
on a wider scale, is in a state
of flux” because, with the
effects of climate change,
there is a greater potential
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